From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: fancy-splash-screen customize group... Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:30:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4399BF2E.8070908@student.lu.se> References: <200512072338.jB7Ncmha031445@brains.moreideas.ca> <200512090225.jB92PWG11550@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134157958 25400 80.91.229.2 (9 Dec 2005 19:52:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 19:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs@whaite.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 09 20:52:36 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EkoHF-0005U1-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:51:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EkoHb-0006jT-66 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:51:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ekm5x-00013t-H8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:31:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ekm5O-0000b0-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:31:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ekm5I-0000Ve-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:31:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ekm6R-0008S7-RM; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:32:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 43995DE900020710; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:30:23 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200512090225.jB92PWG11550@raven.dms.auburn.edu> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47328 Archived-At: Luc Teirlinck wrote: >Richard Stallman wrote: > > Indeed, the Help link takes one to a node whose menu includes Saving > Customizations. I think we should change that menu item to > > * Saving Customizations:: How to save customizations in a different file. > >As it stands, there is a problem with this text. It suggests that if >you are happy with Custom saving into .emacs, you can safely skip this >node. But it contains the following paragraph, which is useful for >everybody: > > If Emacs was invoked with the `-q' or `--no-init-file' options >(*note Initial Options::), it will not let you save your customizations >in your `~/.emacs' init file. This is because saving customizations >from such a session would wipe out all the other customizations you >might have on your init file. > > But if you try to save options when using -Q (or -q I guess) then you get an error message saying "Saving settings from "emacs -q" would overwrite existing customizations" Maybe the text above is not that very important then? However maybe it should be changed to something like * Saving Customizations:: How to save customizations in a different file. And why customizations are not saved when invoking emacs with -Q.